Anybody else "blessed" with Lovebugs this season?

[BOSSHOG]

I've vacummed out the garage ten days straight and they keep on coming. I think (hope) we are in the peak of this year's visit. Ya can't drive ten miles down the road without cleaning your windshield. They are almost as aggravating and annoying as fake Patiots

[Alameda]

1. What is a lovebug?

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I was going to ask that, too.,

Obviously not something we see in Alaska.

[SIMPLYB1980]

4. Ladybugs. nt

Edited: Or maybe not. After googling I see that a love bug is not a ladybug.

[Generator]

7. That ain't no ladybug!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug

[tridim]

8. Ladybugs are good, they eat mites that can destroy crops.

[SIMPLYB1980]

9. Yeah I like them in my garden, but come fall

they move into the house, and cause quite a mess. They will gather on my ceilings in the thousands.

[dgibby]

10. No.

Different bug altogether

Love Bugs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug

Lady Bugs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae

Lady Bugs are beneficial insects. Love Bugs are pests.

[LaydeeBug]

14. Did someone say LayDeeBug?

:hi:

[SIMPLYB1980]

16. LoL!

:hi:

[BOSSHOG]

Nasty and disgusting

lil critters named because they spend their whole lives making love, then they die. There are literally billions of the couplers. They aren't harmful and do not have a natural predator but Godawful nasty, screwing up windshields and making things a mess in the summer months in the south.

[SIMPLYB1980]

2. Happens to me every year. They start moving in right about now.

The worst is when one lands in your drink and you don't see it. They taste worse than they smell when you vacuum them up.

[Blue Diadem]

5. I'd never heard of them before.

After googling images...yuck.

[Love Bug]

6. I'm blessed with a Love Bug every day in my house!

:evilgrin:

[BOSSHOG]

12. I bet your

Love Bug is a sweety pie. Mine are evil lil aggravating demons.

[BuyingThyme]

11. Every season, but generally in the early summer.

They fall into the creek where the trout lap 'em up... temporarily. There's something about ladybugs that causes trout to cough 'em up. The bugs float back up to the top and eventually fly away unharmed.

Some folks collect 'em and sell 'em for aphid control and the like.

ON EDIT: I see we're talking about two different bugs.

[Obamanaut]

13. There have been so few in my area of N. Fla this year, I took the

windshield off the motorcycle in June, and have not yet reinstalled it for the winter driving season.

[musette_sf]

15. they were called "screw-bugs"

when i lived where they were.

[Pangolin2]

17. One of several things I do not miss after moving away from Florida.

:D

[foxfeet]

18. I thought this thread was about crabs.

Never mind.:blush:

[BOSSHOG]

19. Vacummed out the garage two hours ago and its full of lovebugs

once again, most of them dead.